Laborless stroll into the holiday

OK. If you're so busy or brain dead you forgot you get a three-day weekend this weekend (like I did), you need to read this stuff below:

Tonight, 7 p.m., at The Pharmacy a jazz show with Lucas Collins from N.Y. on percussion and Albert Wildeman from Chicago on the upright bass and End Times Trio.

Friday night if you're not going to bingo, here's music and film at Marly's from 6-8 p.m. Jazz Happy Hour will feature 16mm "Film Treatments" and 35mm Slidefilms.

Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Vachel Lindsay Home, I will be reading. (And what many don't know in central Illinois is that I'm a closet songwriter. You east coasters already know that bit o' trivia. Poetry ... and I am breaking out the glee*tar.)

So, come hear me and join me at these other cool events. You get a bonus off day, remember. Oh, that guy down there, below Albert and Lucas and End Times Trio with Frank Trompeter, I just like that photo and he looks like he's holding us all up. No, that's John Saint Holiday, playing Saturday at Thirdbase at 9 p.m. See ya out there.